Studies in the Age of Gower
A Festschrift in Honour of R.F. Yeager
Published on 17. April 2020
Book
Hardback
277 pages
978-1-84384-546-1 (ISBN)
Description
New perspectives on one of the most important medieval poets.
The essays in this volume pay tribute to the distinguished career of Professor R.F. Yeager. Appropriately for one who has done so much to advance scholarship and critical debate on this poet, they focus on John Gower. The approaches taken range widely, from poetics to palaeography, from close critical interpretation to ecocriticism, offering important new readings of Gower and his age. Particular topics addressed include Gower's revisions to the Tale ofRosiphilee; theological and philosophical positions within Gower's work; the violence of manuscript images of Confessio Amantis; and the views of a fellow poet on Gower - Edward Thomas.
The essays in this volume pay tribute to the distinguished career of Professor R.F. Yeager. Appropriately for one who has done so much to advance scholarship and critical debate on this poet, they focus on John Gower. The approaches taken range widely, from poetics to palaeography, from close critical interpretation to ecocriticism, offering important new readings of Gower and his age. Particular topics addressed include Gower's revisions to the Tale ofRosiphilee; theological and philosophical positions within Gower's work; the violence of manuscript images of Confessio Amantis; and the views of a fellow poet on Gower - Edward Thomas.
Reviews / Votes
The book provides a varied and interesting take on Gower, with several outstanding contributions, and it pays a fitting tribute to the honorand. * Journal of the Early Book Society *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
10 s/w Abbildungen
10 b/w illus.
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
584 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84384-546-1 (9781843845461)
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Persons
SUSANNAH MARY CHEWNING is Senior Professor of English, Union County College. A. S. G. Edwards is Honorary Professor of Medieval Manuscripts at the University of Kent at Canterbury. The late Derek Pearsall was Emeritus Gurney Professor of Middle English Literature at Harvard University; he wrote extensively on Chaucer, Gower, Langland and Lydgate, including biographies of Chaucer and Lydgate, an edition of the C-text of Langland's Piers Plowman. SUSANNAH MARY CHEWNING is Senior Professor of English, Union County College.
Content
Introduction - Susannah Chewning
Edward Thomas on Gower - A S G Edwards
The Sutherland Fragment of Gower's Confessio Amantis - Derek Pearsall
Incarnational Making in Vox Clamantis II - Stephanie L. Batkie and Matthew W. Irvin
Patriarchy, Family and Law in Gower's Confessio Amantis - Russell Peck
Gower's Ballades for Women - Peter Nicholson
John Gower and the Artists of M. 126 - Martha W. Driver
Gower in Striped Sleeves: Mirour de l'Omme as Gower's Early Humanism - Andrew Galloway
What's in a Name? History, Genre, and Political Speech in Gower's Chronica Tripertita - David A. Roberts
Studies in Gower's Age: Ciceronian Echoes in Confessio Amantis - William Rogers
Gower's Light: the Ecology of "De Lucis scrutino" - Natalie Grinnell
Gower, Chaucer, and the "Treuthe of Prestehode" - Michael Kuczynski
"To Hear an Old Man Sing": Apollonius, Pericles, and the Age of Gower - Roger A. Ladd
The Constraints of Justice in Gower's "Lawyerly Habit of Mind" - Brian Gastle
A Poet at Work: John Gower's Revisions to the Tale of Rosiphilee - Richard Firth Green
A Personal Tribute to Robert F. Yeager - Susannah Chewning
Bibliography of R. F. Yeager's Writings
General Bibliography
Edward Thomas on Gower - A S G Edwards
The Sutherland Fragment of Gower's Confessio Amantis - Derek Pearsall
Incarnational Making in Vox Clamantis II - Stephanie L. Batkie and Matthew W. Irvin
Patriarchy, Family and Law in Gower's Confessio Amantis - Russell Peck
Gower's Ballades for Women - Peter Nicholson
John Gower and the Artists of M. 126 - Martha W. Driver
Gower in Striped Sleeves: Mirour de l'Omme as Gower's Early Humanism - Andrew Galloway
What's in a Name? History, Genre, and Political Speech in Gower's Chronica Tripertita - David A. Roberts
Studies in Gower's Age: Ciceronian Echoes in Confessio Amantis - William Rogers
Gower's Light: the Ecology of "De Lucis scrutino" - Natalie Grinnell
Gower, Chaucer, and the "Treuthe of Prestehode" - Michael Kuczynski
"To Hear an Old Man Sing": Apollonius, Pericles, and the Age of Gower - Roger A. Ladd
The Constraints of Justice in Gower's "Lawyerly Habit of Mind" - Brian Gastle
A Poet at Work: John Gower's Revisions to the Tale of Rosiphilee - Richard Firth Green
A Personal Tribute to Robert F. Yeager - Susannah Chewning
Bibliography of R. F. Yeager's Writings
General Bibliography